COLLEGE STUDENT FIGHTS BACK ON MANDATORY TRACKING DEVICE

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Oakland University tried to mandate all students wear a tracking device that would monitor their vital signs in hopes of predicting Covid-19, but one senior student stood up and pushed back. This week’s HighWire Hero, Tyler Dixon, proves it only takes one voice to make a difference.

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0:00.0	What if you had to little wear a little badge, a monitor of some sort, on your skin in order
0:06.6	to go to college or high school? Take a look at this.
0:10.3	Last week, Oakland University announced plans to have students and staff where something
0:13.9	called a biobutton. It tracks your temperature, your heart rate, and your respiratory rate.
0:18.5	So what is a biobun? Oakland University says it's another tool in the fight against COVID.
0:23.7	The button sticks to your upper chest and tracks potential signs of COVID before symptoms
0:27.9	appear.
0:28.9	What the company has done is reverse engineered from COVID positive patients.
0:34.8	What the very beginnings of COVID infection look like.
0:38.1	And so its algorithms are slowly learning better and better.
0:41.4	How to catch COVID as early as possible before you start coughing, before you feel bad.
0:46.4	The biobun is linked to your phone, which sparked privacy concerns.
0:50.5	Oakland University says the data will not be shared with anyone and highly encourages
0:54.3	students and staff on campus to think about wearing one.
0:59.9	What would you do if your school was going to put a biobutton on you?
1:05.2	Well, this story leads us to a segment we haven't done for a very long time,
1:10.5	but it's one of my favorites at time for Highwire Hero.
1:14.1	And this week our Highwire Hero is Tyler Dixon, who goes to the very school.
1:30.2	We just all wanted to have biobuttons on everybody.
1:33.9	I'm joined right now by Tyler Dixon Tyler.
1:37.5	So obviously this idea of wearing a biobutton, you weren't too hot on it.
1:42.2	What was the plan the school was going to mandate this thing?
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